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With the death of Polaroids on the horizon, more and more people seem to be becoming nostalgic for the ancient discolored little instamatic images. And I’m completely ok with that. I’ll be the first to admit I wish I’d hopped on the trend before it became campy cool to carry around an SX-70 to parties. Now I just feel like a bit of a tool doing so and instead bring mine around to places like the beach or random camping trips (images to follow someday from my current forays into the use of various slightly vintage film cameras of varying formats).

Today I stumbled across another Polaroid-focused blog that I’m now in love with and just have to share. It’s called Tokyo Polaroids and I have no idea what the rhyme or reason behind the site is since it’s all in Japanese. The only explanation I can find is the tagline up top “Five polaroids are better than four.” But I do know there are some pretty great shots on here, a lot of them involving cats oddly enough. And I can’t wait to check back on the site periodically to see what new images they update it with.

Then of course there’s My Polaroid Blog, which I already fell in love with several months ago because of her oh so pretty, dreamy images she manages to capture.

*Sigh*
So many pictures of Paris. It makes me want to go back desperately.

Brooklyn + Philadelphia + adorable jewelry with a statement = Brookadelphia.

I am super glad I stumbled across this company. They caught my eye on the Etsy homepage with a recently added gold “vote.” necklace.

Aside from this cute necklace (also available in silver by the way), there are earrings like these:

and necklaces like these:

So really, what’s NOT to love about them?

I made this. A couple days/weeks/months ago, I don’t remember when exactly. Or what feelings/thoughts I was having at the time I felt compelled to do it. But I like it. So I tore it out of my notebook and framed it. I hope you like it too. Or can decipher it or find some extremely interesting reasoning for its existence to help me explain it to people who see it across the room in my apartment and ask “What’s that scribble?”

At NYLON, we get a lot of stuff in the office - makeup, lotions, CDs, books, shoes, random attire, blah, blah, etc. Some of, quite frankly, is complete crap, and gets instantly thrown onto the freebie table, most likely never to be seen again, or maybe potentially be snagged by an intern. Luckily, last week, I was pleasantly surprised by this company Riot Tuxedo. They sent me over two shirts from their current collection and they are organic cotton, super soft, and so extremely tre cool.

I got this one:

and this one:

So we gratefully blogged about the company on NYLON here. Check them out. Their shirts are awesomeeeeee.

It’s been a while. I’ve been internally debating whether or not to pick up this practice again, posting all the graphics that I make while at NYLON. Since previously I was only an intern and was there just 2 days a week, there weren’t quite so many of them to post as there are now, being that I’m all 9-5 full-timin’ and stuff. So instead, here are a few of the graphics I’ve made so far in my first 3 weeks on the job, a few I’m especially proud of.